Project Two: Zach's Bedroom Almost Complete

After starting Zach's room in December it's been a very slow progress. In the last update I had finished the wallpaper and was struggling to cover the dark grey walls with white paint.

Well now we have finally managed to finish the painting and are happy with the finish. I've bought some new drawers for his room from IKEA to store all his clothes in and have added some of the accessories we had stored away for the makeover. I've even added the canvases I made myself for his room which were really simple and cheap to make. I still feel it needs a bit more but I guess it will be a case of adding things as and when I spot them like I have done in Gracie's bedroom. Of course I will share with you any of the accessories I find!

My main worry for this room was the lack of light that got in with the window being in an awkward place but I'm glad to say that the colours have definitely made a difference and have really brightened the room perfectly. 

I have even solved the problem of cluttered toys by adding storage boxes into the wardrobe so he can just have a box out at a time, I will do another post shortly on space saving in children's bedrooms as I have a lot of ideas to help those of you struggling with space in smaller rooms. 

Project Two: Zach's Train Bedroom

I chose the Train theme before Zach was even born. I had been looking at exciting ways to decorate a boys nursery and it was one theme that I really fell in love with! I started to decorate his room at our old house whilst pregnant and had a few disasters when it came to colours I was so upset (pregnancy hormones) that my lovely Nan paid a decorator to fix it up for me and just days before he was born his room was finally painted. The room was Dark Blue and I ordered a personalised train sticker in red to go over the cot. I found some lovely Train toddler bedding in Next and bought it there and then incase it was discontinued before I needed it and also bought the matching rug and some lovely bookends to go with it. I wanted some pictures to go on the walls but couldn't find any nice ones anywhere so decided to make my own, this was so easy and I was so pleased with them. You can see his old room pictured below; 

Well anyway since we had to move out of the house and now have our lovely new house, I decided I wanted the same theme in his new room. Only I have a slight problem, The placement of the window in his new room means there is not much light in the room at all. This means it probably isn't a good idea to go with dark colours in his bedroom. So I have had to come up with a way to still incorporate the theme but with lighter colours to brighten up the room. At the minute it has grey walls and a dark New York themed wallpaper and although not to my taste, the room is in a much better condition than all the others in the house so there won't be many big changes thankfully. Here are some pictures of it the day we moved in;

I have gone for a wallpaper on the feature wall which has a white background and red and blue stripes. I will then paint the other walls plain white. This is where my plans have got so far and instead of planning each and every detail this time, I'm going to see how it goes and once I've painted and papered I will then think about finishing touches. I must be mad attempting to do a room makeover so close to Christmas but I am determined to get it done to tick another project off my list!